Sara Mead is a senior associate with Bellwether Education Partners who writes about education policy, with particular attention to early childhood education, school reform, and improving educational outcomes for low-income students.

A second, and very different, set of rankings is the Center for Education Reform's annual ranking of state charter school laws. I have my quibbles with them, and other rankings have emerged recently that I like better, but CER's rankings remain a useful source of information on charter laws, they're generally right about who's at the top and bottom of the spectrum here, and their big-picture conclusion about the crapitude of many state charter school laws (which support neither supply, flexibility, nor quality) is dead on.

Not surprisingly, the states at the top and bottom of these two rankings are very different. Discuss as you will.

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